Parson Drove No. 1

No individual entry found for Parson Drove in the Domesday survey. The Victoria History of the Counties of England (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The chapel of St. John the Baptist, since 1870 (see Leverington) the parish church of Parson Drove, attained at a comparatively early date a more independent status than was usual with parochial chapelries. [...] The earliest portion of the present fabric is the north doorway, which belongs to the first half of the 13th century. [...] The font has a panelled octagonal bowl and is of 15th-century date." Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], big, with elaborate quatrefoil panels on the bowl, and tracery on the stem." The church, now redundant, is in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. The Trust's web site [www.visitchurches.org.uk] notes a "Perpendicular octagonal font" present in the church. Noted and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches (2005): "The 15th century font is octagonal and has shallow carving on the bowl."